The Plaza which opened in 1939 is finally celebrating its 70th birthday in style with screenings of classic films from 1939, including 35mm prints of the Fleischers’ Gulliver’s Travels and Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, plus Gone With The Wind, The Wizard of Oz and Planet Outlaws (the 1953 feature version of [...]
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Atlanta’s Plaza Theatre 70th Anniversary Celebration
January 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Film exhibition, Screenings
More From Life: Widescreen, Big Screen
December 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Film exhibition, Film technology
The premiere of the first Cinerama film, This is Cinerama, at the Broadway Theater on September 30, 1952, marked a turning point in film history. The three-projector process developed by Fred Waller spelled the end of the old Academy aperture format that had dominated filmmaking from its very inception, and was the first effective response [...]
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